Heuristic Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must… — Imre Lakatos
• Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. — Steve McConnell
• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. — Imre Lakatos
• To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade… — Ernst Mayr
• The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. — Imre Lakatos
• The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. — Wilhelm Wundt
• By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
• The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are… — Daniel Kahneman

Who Wrote These Heuristic Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 9 Heuristic Quotes as follows:

• 3 Heuristic Quotes by Imre Lakatos
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Steve McConnell
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Ernst Mayr
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Wilhelm Wundt
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Daniel Kahneman
• 1 Heuristic Quote by Woody Allen